USB & Swap With ExtRoot

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USB & Swap with ExtRoot

TL-MR3420 Ver1.2 [ USB & Swap support with ExtRoot ]

Reference, thanks & credits go to the following :

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=123070#p123070

[Optional] Setup as Standalone Device

I setup the device as standalone unit as follows, with main gateway pointing to my TL-WR1043ND [192.168.1.1], which is also runningOpenWRT

Disconnect PC from the device, connect and attach the device to existing LAN switch, open browser and type the device's new IP

I disabled some of the following services

MAIN MENU

Home

News -MUST Read!!

Travel & Entertainment

TM-UNIFI RELATED

About TM-UniFi

Replacement Option Summary

My Setup

MikroTik

TP-Link

ASUS

DD-WRT for UniFi

ISP & TELCO

SingTel Fibre

OPENWRT RELATED

About OpenWrt

TL-WR1043ND Ver1.8 [UniFi Ready!]

TL-WR941ND Ver3.2 [UniFi Ready!]

TL-MR3420 Ver1.2 [UniFi -Vlan.500]

USB, Swap, ExtRoot

Samba, FTP, Transmission

MiniDLNA

UniFi Setup

Network Printer via USB

TL-WR740N Ver4.2 [UniFi -Vlan.500]

RT-N13U-B1 [UniFi Ready!]

RT-N10+ C1 [UniFi Ready!]

WHR-G300N-V1 [UniFi Ready!]

DIR-615-G1 [UniFi Ready!]

TL-WDR4300-V1.3 [UniFi Ready!]

DD-WRT RELATED

About DD-WRT

Setup Walk Through

TP-Link

Buffalo

ASUS

TOMATO RELATED

About Tomato

Buffalo WHR-HP-G54

GADGETS

BeatBox BlueTooth Mini Speaker

ASUS WL-330N3G

CANSONIC-CDV600

MeLE A100

In-Car DVR (Dual Camera)

TP-Link Portable Routers

Mobile Phone

USB & Swap with ExtRoot http://www.klseet.com/index.php/tl-mr3420-ver12/usb-swap-extroot

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Also named the device

Reboot the device after the above setup

Prepare USB2 External 2.5" HDD

I use Minitool Home Free to create 2 partition as follows on an USB2 external 2.5" SATA HDD

D-Link DNS-320 [NAS]

HDMI Switch

HDMI Splitter

HDMI Extender

Universal Remote Control - Learn &

Store Permanently

OpenBox S9 HD

DreamBox DM500-S

Laptop Universal Charger (90W)

GPS

Garmin

China Made GPS

INFORMATION

SoPhone Vs iPhone4 [HK eZone

20Jan2011]

TP-Link PA-211 HomePlug AV (3rd

Generation) [by HK eZone 20Jan2011]

HomePlug - 9 Products Comparison

(Chinese)

P1 => PUI-1 ?!

P1 Fiber - What a tough journey .....

P1 D-Link DVG-N5412SP-A1

P1 Router Replacement

P1 Fiber - Terminate!


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Partition 1 : about 1GB for Linux SwapPartition 2 : all remaining size for data on ext3 filesystem

(Note: Refer HERE for more information on HDD partitioning)

Setup USB, Swap and ExtRoot

To install package, go to " System --> Software tab "Click Update lists

Once the list updated, type " kmod-usb-storage ", click Find packageClick on Available tab, click Install the following package

Continue to finish install the following packages


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Plug-in the USB2 HDD now

Go to " System --> Reboot tab "Click Perform reboot

After reboot, launch PuTTY, type the following command lines, then reboot the device again

After reboot, launch WinSCP, go to " /etc/config " folderLocate & edit the file fstab


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Change to the following, take note the partition numbering:

/dev/sda1 = Partition 1 (LinuxSwap)/dev/sda2 = Partition 2 (ext3 for data)

Back to LuCI, reboot the device

After re-boot, go to the following section, notice the free space now, YEAH !


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Go to check the Mount Points, the ext3 is mounted correctly to /overlay, however in my case, the swap seem not working, not sure why....So I click Edit it

Enable the swap as follows

Go to Startup, ensure the fstab is Enabled


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Reboot the device, again ....

Wah-la, all mounted nicely !


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Launch PuTTY to re-confirm again

To spin down the HDD after some time of idlingInstall the luci-app-hd-idle

Noticed there is a new tab under Services, setup the HDD idling accordingly.

Finally, USB HDD + SWAP + ExtRoot all done


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